Here's What to Buy from Madewell's First Men's Collection

It’s been a big couple of weeks for J.Crew. First, their newly rebooted mainline landed in stores around the globe. A week later, they officially launched the first-ever men’s collection from Madewell, the younger, bohemian sub-brand that’s been the retail giant’s golden goose in recent years. Madewell’s initial offering for dudes focuses exclusively on jeans—their signature denim, which took two years of R&D to perfect, comprises more than half of the collection—and the stuff you wear with them: think flawlessly beat-up tees, sweats, and trucker jackets. They’re the kind of clothes your cooler younger brother who plays drums in a noise rock band shows up in to Thanksgiving. The kind of well-made, well-considered, not-prohibitively-expensive essentials that are really hard to find—or were, anyway, before this collection dropped.

Madewell selvedge slim jeans

Here's the purest distillation of Madewell's vision for world denim domination: an on-point slim silhouette with a hem engineered to sit just right on your shoes; fabric with the modern comfort and stretch you're accustomed to, but the vintage-y lived-in character and sturdiness you're looking for. And that fabric, in this instance, is particularly special: it's some of the last selvedge denim from the now-shuttered White Oak mill.